Rococo, neoclassicm romanticsm realism

rococo

based on taste or aristocracy: its achievements and exploits, and democratic and individualistic ideas.

characterized by ornate detail, playful themes, and light colors. referred to as high baroque

Fragonard, s

The Bathers

rococo; appeals to aristocrats; sexual

Fragonard

The Swing

very sexual; rococo

Watteau The Embarkation for Cythera

the court comes back from perfect place; elitist

rococo

 transitional post rococo

Neoclassical and Romantic influences based on politics archeology and the repercussions of the day of exloring

architecture post rococo/ neoclassical

eclectic; many past ideas

influenced by Palladio wiritngs and politics; 

ideas of escapism

bring architecture from around the world to the UK

neoclassical painting

tied to the academy, Nicholas Poussain, Salons, the govt

clean lined painting

history and mythology as  metaphor

expansionism and pushing art

2 artists: David or studnet=Jean Dominique ingres

David's Oath of the Horati

3 brothers fight 3 other guys

idea is will do whatever it takes to protect the state

neoclassical

David’s Death of Socrates

idea is will die for his ideas and beliefs

neoclassical

Death of Marat

David makes Marat look saintly; propaganda

neoclassical

Napolean Crossing the 

Alps

david make him look heroic

truth is was sick and murdering

neoclassical

Odalisque

harem woman; mannerism and Romantic but it is neoclassic

neoclassical 

Romanticism

epressive, painterly and coloristic

portrays something exotic or far away

movement is conceptual

pushes art standards

Raft of the Medusa

theodore gericault; observationist

takes a current event and makes it into history

Romanticism

the madman

theodore gericault

Romanticism

 Death of Sarandapalus

delacroix- reinvented color wheel; contrasting

Romanticism

Eugene Delacroix Liberty leading the people

allegory- metaphor

Proudhon +Baudelaire

image shows upper/low class, lady liberty, new france-kid

Romanticism

English Romanticism

• Same Principles apply

• Landscape and the Sublime

• Sublime- awesome Grandeur of Nature- tells us about the divine

• English will plant the seeds of French Impressionism

Turner Burning of the Houses of 

Parliament

JMW- only person to become full member of academy at a young age

sublime-divine fire

Romanticism

painting with the paper dog

JMW- show off

rivals put a paper dog on it

JMW kept it

Romanticism

Hampstead Heath, Looking Towards Harrow

john constable

John ruskin - aesthetician

1st to paint “en plein aire“- outdoors

Romanticism

The Hay Wain

Romanticism

Salisbury Cathedral

Constable

Romanticism

ancient of days

william blake

mystic had visions

pushed the ideas of art

Poet, Printmaker, Painter

Romanticism

Portrait of the royal family

francesco goya- Spanish court painter

monarchy- starts rococo

works through romantic period

goya- in the background

showed the inbreeding of the Spanish royalty

Romanticism

Suites Los Folies and Los 

Capriccios

goya etchings- next great print maker

after Rembrandt, before him Durer

used the acquaint technique- makes gradual grainy change

Romanticism

The Third of May 1808

goya - in a crucifixion pose

light comes from a french army light; not heaven

french army portrayed as single killing unit

paints christians as martyrs

Romanticism

saturn devouring his son

goya black paintings

Romanticism

Witches' Sabbath

goya black painting

Romanticism

The abbey in the oakwood

romanticism value based

Romanticism

Monk by the sea

puts people in perspective

Romanticism

Morning Mist in the Mountains

freiderich

almost nothing in it

Romanticism

The Oxbow

Thomas Cole

Romanticism

The view of schroon mountain

Romanticism

Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California

Frederick Edwin Church

still value based

Romanticism

Jonah

albert pinkham ryder

“american Van Gogh”

Romanticism

Realism

Slice of life images- poetry out of the ordinary

Mostly paint en plein aire

Gustave Corbett mostly leads it

Artists go outside the academy to find acceptance

A Morning. The Dance of the Nymphs

Features historical/mythological people

-Corot

Realism

Theodore Rousseau

-slice of life, guy reading a book

Realism

Francois millet

Realist; paints slightly romantic

-brilliant painter

Realism

The gleaners

Millet

Primary colors-true to the earth

Realism

The stone breakers

Courbet

advocates terrorism slightly

first to write a manifesto

gallery system starts to evolve

Courbet is egotistical refers to himself as 2nd coming

Realism

The Painter's Studio; A Real Allegory Summing Up Seven Years of My Artistic and Moral Life

Courbet

cat wouldn’t bow to king; does to corbet

Realism

Gargantua

honore Daumier

realism

third class carriage

urban alien-ism

realism

Biglin Brothers turning the Stake

Thomas Eakins

Realism

The Life Line

American artist Winslow Homer

watercolor

Realism

The Turtle Pound

watercolor wonslow

Realism

The Annunciation

Henry Ossawa

Realism